A small student-built hemp demonstration structure nicknamed the “Hemp Casita” has criss-crossed the state of Kansas educating about the potential of building materials made of industrial hemp.

Now, some of the collaborators are working to bring that knowledge to New Jersey with an educational seminar in Manahawkin, NJ. May 10-12 that will cover industrial hemp from growing the plant to building with it.

“We are ready to create an East Coast Casita to educate about a new, healthy style of building,” Manahawkin, NJ – based Right Coast Hemp co-founder Kristin Orr-Santorelli told HempBuild Mag.

The two-day seminar will include instruction by longtime hemp construction expert Tom Rossmassler, founder and Chief Embodied Officer of Northampton, MA-construction company HempStone. Also instructing will be Angel Romero, Jr., a Dodge City, KS-based hemp building contractor who helped build the original casita.

Orr-Santorelli, founder of New Jersey children’s charity Hearts of Mercy, has developed her interest in her family’s farmland in KS into a full-blown obsession over the potential of industrial hemp, and brought that back to her home state of New Jersey.

By Jean Lotus

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